By combining inspiration from the digital world of polygon meshing and the biological world of swarm behavior, the Mori3 robot can morph from 2D triangles into almost any 3D object. The research ...

Bees, ants and termites don't need blueprints. They may have queens, but none of these species breed architects or construction managers. Each insect worker, or drone, simply responds to cues like ...

Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have achieved a first by developing an origami robot that can change shape, move around, and interact with objects and people. By ...

One important aspect of polygons is that they are two-dimensional, and so are the ones that can form the Mori3 robot. By the way, Mori is an acronym for Modular Origami Robots.

Diffusion models like OpenAI's DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt ...

Smarter robot swarms offer traffic-free blueprint ... This near-sighted approach enables the robots to move far more quickly to form a desired shape. In the team's experiments, 100 robots were ...

By combining inspiration from the digital world of polygon meshing and the biological world of swarm behaviour, the Mori3 robot can morph from 2D triangles into almost any 3D object.